Kolkata

West Bengal

Haldia Petrochemicals and refinery dock complex outside Kolkata in West Bengal: Industry along Hooghly delta, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata.

West Bengal·highway

Road side Circus in Kolkata of the 1990's: Street performers put up entertainment for passersby. A kid jumps through a framework of knives, while four children pass through a metal hoop. Another jumps through a ring of fire.

West Bengal·sport

A younger Sourav Ganguly at an IPL premiere. Juhi Chawla in attendance. Kolkata Knight Riders cricket memorabilia on display, Sajid Khan with Shah Rukh Khan speaking at the premiere: "I find the ads extreme;y creative and funny.

West Bengal·music

John Abraham on Deepa Mehta's Film 'Water': "My character is called Narayan. He is an idealist, educated in Kolkata but he returns to his village.

West Bengal·architecture

Can you imagine trams running on Howrah Bridge in the olden days? See old buses, Hindustan Ambassador cars, Fiat cars, jeeps and hand-pulled rickshaws running on Howrah Bridge in the erstwhile city of Calcutta, West Bengal.

West Bengal·highway

Traffic passes by a statue of spiritual guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in the middle of a road in Kolkata, West Bengal. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was an Indian yogi during the 19th-century and the spiritual guru of Swami Vivekananda.

West Bengal·architecture · river

Calcutta or Kolkata as seen in the 1990s as busy as ever. Sights from different areas of the city. The ever-busy and bustling Howrah Bridge with residents dipping in the Hooghly.

West Bengal·monsoon · school

An archaic bus passes by the even older building of Ambulance Headquarters of the Corporation of Calcutta, with Community Party of India insignia on the walls. An old Willys jeep coasts through the waters.

West Bengal

Officers and army men prepare for the ceremony, and discuss the placement of staff for the main event.

West Bengal

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity and around the country file in to the church in Kolkata, on the passing of Mother Teresa. Security is high. Ordinary people line up to get a glimpse of their hero.

West Bengal·monsoon · highway

Trees come smashing down, people wade through flooded streets, roads flooded over, traffic lights and billboards fall and overall chaos prevails in Kolkata after cyclone hits city in 2020.

West Bengal

Wow - what a remarkable archival record of the old days in Calcutta with clients coming in for a body massage in the open, on the road-side, at Babughat in Kolkata, West Bengal.

West Bengal·highway · railway

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is an airport located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, serving the greater Kolkata metro area.

West Bengal·ceremony · temple

This archival footage transports us to the vibrant Shakti Peeth in Kolkata, capturing the essence of devotion and community life.

West Bengal·temple · music

People who are Ram Bhakts play the song Hum Bhagwa Dhari, sing and dance to the music beats, while wearing orange turbans and traditional kurta pajama attire.

West Bengal·river · architecture

A melange of a collection of 4K gyro stabilized S-log LUT shot footage on Kolkata or Calcutta in West Bengal, India. Howrah bridge on the Hooghly river in Kolkata, with barges and ferries carrying people across the river.

West Bengal·monsoon

Cyclone Amphan originating from the Indian Ocean hits West Bengal in May 2020. The results are overwhelming sights even at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport in Kolkata, West Bengal.

West Bengal

A printing press in olden days in Kolkata in West Bengal. Indian people work at a printing press. A person brushes the papers with a brush at a printing press and a woman binds the papers of a book with needle and thread.

West Bengal·politics

These scenes of celebration captured the upbeat mood of Congress party in West Bengal. Although the ruling Left Front managed to squeak past the winning post in a narrowest of victories in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation election analyst…

West Bengal·bazaar · highway

The old market lanes of Kolkata, where history, commerce, and everyday life blend seamlessly.

West Bengal

Calcutta was virtually painted red and as the 16th Congress of the Communist Party Marxist met to take stock of the party's progress. The comrades decided to move a little to the center from the left.

West Bengal

Almost every evening in an old school building in North Calcutta, Rudraprasad Sengupta one of Calcutta's leading theatre directors rehearses his play.

West Bengal·politics

Calcutta: The People's City. A historical and semi-archival perspective on the city of Kolkata. See magic tricks being performed on the streets. Police active on Calcutta streets, rounding up protestors.